Graffiti Walls Find A Home In Dive Bar Bathrooms [Video. DIVE ART is a short film that explores a new wave of graffiti that’s taken Bushwick, Greenpoint and Williamsburg by storm.
Created by filmmakers Brandon Bloch and Tim Sessler the film portrays the beauty of everyday spaces that tend to be passed over. Artful scribbles are now completely covering the bathrooms of Brooklyn’s finest dive bars such as The Gutter, Duck Duck, Bushwick Country Club, Anchored Inn, and Pearl’s Social. While not the most pleasant setting, these bathrooms can be seen (and wholeheartedly are in the film) as community art spaces. Inspired by Ian MacAllen’s Tumblr, Toilets of New York, DIVE ART was shot over the course of two days on a Canon 5D and using a slider rail. The duo explain, “It’s really this organic beauty that’s often dismissed as vandalism. Watch the video below to see these wild interiors: Images: The Observer Sources: Vimeo, Brandon Bloch, Tim Sessler. A Rare Look at the Tunnels Under San Francisco. In the early ’90s my friends and I used to tape flashlights to the handlebars of our bikes and go riding around in underground storm drain tunnels.
There was a whole network of these tunnels under the city that sat empty for most of the year. We would go for miles snaking up and down the sides of the tubes, clapping and yelling to see how far our echoes would carry, eventually popping out in some other part of the city covered in cobwebs and bat guano. When the tubes got too small, we laid down on skateboards and kept going.
If we found a flooded part, we taped garbage bags around our legs and crossed our fingers. The overwhelming feeling of adventure was intoxicating. New Origami Street Art in Angers, France by Mademoiselle Maurice. French artist Mademoiselle Maurice (previously here and here) has two fun new pieces up this month as part of the 2013 ARTAQ Festival in Angers, France.
Requiring over 30,000 folded components, the artist relied on help from school children and people living in nearby “leisure centers” to help complete all of the pieces in time for installation. Hundreds of additional volunteers were on-hand to help cover a stairwell leading to Montée St-Maurice which was completed on May 31st. See many more photos here. The Street Art and Paintings of Wes21. Swiss artist Remo Lienhard (aka Wes21) has an imagination to kill for.
His acrylic and spray paint works are explosively detailed and often depict a sort of dystopian fusion of people and the natural world. Though despite the grittiness and abundance of detail found in each of his works it’s clear he also possesses a keen sense of humor. Lienhard belongs to a collective of graffiti artists and illustrators called Schwarzmaler where you can find much more of his street art and other works. Also don’t miss him over on Facebook. (via street art utopia which has a killer roundup of street art this month) Update: Wes21 is represented by SOON where you can learn more about his work.
Felice Varini New Piece In Paris, France StreetArtNews. Felice Varini is known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings in rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques.
The Swiss artist just completed this new piece in Paris for an upcoming exhibition at the Grand Palais which is entitled "Dynamo". If you stop by the city of lights, you'll find this one at the terrasse du Grand Palais. Highlights from Sculpture by the Sea 2013 in Aarhus, Denmark. Alejandro Propato / Permanent Sunrise Vibeke Noergaard Roensbo / Remind Phil Price / Snake Yeo Chee Kiong / A yoga and pedicure diy session on the beach Brandon Vickerd / Sputnik Returned The Glue Society / Once (An entire amusement park crushed into a 4 x 4 metre cube.)
The Glue Society / Once, detail. Visual Injection: February. It’s that time of the month again.
The sun bounces off chrome on the wall and the worlds align to produce some of the illest visuals the internet has ever seen. Scroll down and let February burn those retinas. about the author: Max The founder of Broken Culture, Max is an MC/DJ/Producer/Writer/Photographer/Designer with a love for d&b, Hip Hop and city life. Find him sipping a Whisky with close company wherever the music's on point, crate digging till his fingers bleed or creeping through the metropolis with an eye out for his favourite animal; the urban fox. www.maxjquinn.com. Komplaint Dept. Why. I Hate. Graffiti. Style Wars (1983) Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant Have you noticed how lame graffiti in New York has become in 2013?
Amazing Graffiti Writing Time-lapse of Sofles in Melbourne. Somewhere in Melbourne there is a giant decaying warehouse now covered in some two dozen pieces by graffiti writer Sofles.
Filmed and edited by Celina Mills, this impressive time-lapse shot over an indeterminate amount of time (this has to have taken more than a day, right?) Documents Sofles as he whips out tags and more complex graffiti paintings in a seemingly limitless variety of styles, texture and color. (via stellar)